A one?man workshop production which both starred a faculty actor and was directed by a Tufts faculty member - "Krapp's Last Tape" - was performed on Tuesday March 12 and Wednesday March 13. The Samuel Beckett play starred Drama and Dance professor Laurence Senelick. Besides being a professor at Tufts, Senelick has also authored and edited more than 25 books.
Trigger warning: the following column addresses sexual assault.
Matthew Houck is a $6 million man. After five albums of boozy soul?searching and neo?country meandering - including an entire LP of Willie Nelson covers - the man who records under the Phosphorescent moniker has turned himself into something much stronger, faster and better with the release of his new album, "Muchacho." Houck's music has always projected him as a drifter: a tequila?soaked man who has made more mistakes than he cares to remember. Yet with his most recent effort, he's managed to transform this character from a deplorable anti?hero to an endearing wanderer, wise beyond his years.
The ninth annual Tufts $100K Business Plan Competition, sponsored by the Gordon Institute's Entrepreneurial Leadership Program (ELP), to be held this year on April 24, received a record 109 applications.
The Tufts School of Medicine on March 15 celebrated "Match Day," when fourth?year medical students learn which residencies they will work for the next three to four years. This year's Match Day marks the first 32 graduates of the "Maine Track" program, a teaching partnership between the Tufts School of Medicine and the Maine Medical Center (MMC), which accepted its first students in 2009.
The Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) this month began construction for the first phase of a project to extend the T's Green Line through Medford and Somerville.
A new track for environmental studies majors available starting next semester will focus on food systems and their relationship with the environment.
A region where rolling red?clay hills grow beanpole?thin pine trees, presidential elections are fatefully decided and a fierce rivalry between Florida State University and University of Florida ups the stakes of college sports, North Florida - my home, which is sometimes referred to as the Redneck Riviera - is surprisingly steeped in Southern hospitality and, with that personality, a certain Southern way of dressing. Growing up in this coastal Southern area, I picked up social cues on what's fashionable and what is simply not. Half of the time, these looks aren't even trendy; they directly relate to the climate and reflect the local hobbies and pastimes.
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate unanimously passed a 'Resolution Calling for Reforms to Undergraduate Advising' in a short session yesterday, calling on university departments like the Office of Academic Advising and Undergraduate Studies to improve the ratio of advisors to students, with particular emphasis on pre-major advisors.
Coming off a successful fall season, the men's tennis team began their spring campaign on a high note. The team picked up four wins while dropping just one match over spring break.
A committee of Somerville Board of Aldermen members, Davis Square residents and Somerville city government workers is considering four development proposals for a hotel in Davis Square after Aldermen approved the sale of city property for a hotel last fall.
This article is the first in a series exploring the historical background of sites and buildings on the Medford/Somerville campus.
Two Tufts mock trial teams will compete next month at the American Mock Trial Association's (AMTA) National Championship tournament in Washington, D.C., marking the fourth straight year Tufts will have competed. After a successful showing at the Opening Round Championship Series (ORCS) in Easton, Penn., last weekend, Tufts has placed two teams among the top 48 that will compete for the championship title, according to Brian Pilchik, a former captain and member of the Tufts A-team. This is the first time Tufts will send two teams to the championship, Pilchik said.
Cafeteria Boston is nestled on the corner of Gloucester and Newbury Street - but you might not see it at first. It is half-underground, down a set of stairs and offset from the usual hustle and bustle of Newbury. But it is very much worth visiting.
You can still order the Double Down at Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC), three years after the fast-food chain reveled its infamous breadless "sandwich" in a 2010 April Fool's Day press release and then decided to leave it on the menu. But the Double Down's continued existence does not justify anyone 's ordering it.
A visitor entering the Koppelman Gallery might initially feel a little underwhelmed by the number of art pieces on display. The collection named "Untitled," for example, contains only eight 11? by 14?inch mixed media collages. It is easy to take a quick glance at the largely black?and?white collages and leave without a sense of awe. It is not immediately evident that these displayed art pieces make up only a tiny fraction of the extensive number of collages made by Stacey Steers, who spent four years meticulously handcrafting more than 4,000 of them. Her work did not stop there, for she strung them all together to form a silent film that is screened in the gallery as well. With her background in film, rather than fine art, Steers has found a way to incorporate her ideas into an effective multimedia exhibition that is simultaneously disturbing and intriguing.
The human rights of the Palestinian people have been desecrated ever since the State of Israel was carved into their homeland in 1948. Today, the remaining Palestinian territories - the West Bank and Gaza - have imposed upon them racial segregation, annexation, detention, voter suppression and sadistic aggression under the military occupation. This all comes with America's gleeful support, financially and culturally. We live in a Zionist culture. Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) is an annual national movement to rally and educate on the subjugation of the Palestinian people, drawing inspiration from the international divestment movement in response to the South African apartheid. In addition to stating the compelling analogy between the segregation of Palestinians and that of black South Africans, IAW promotes the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) strategy to cripple the economic support for Israel's occupying forces. I wrote last week how our own endowment is invested in certain corporations complicit in the illegal occupation - namely, IDF tracking computer system manufacturer Hewlett Packard. It's thus natural that our campus should have a strong activist response to Israeli apartheid. Enter the Tufts chapter of the national Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), who in the last few years have emerged as an impressive purveyor of bada??, enlightening action. SJP operates horizontally, directly involving members in decision?making, rather than a selected leadership board's selecting the organization's vision. Last week, SJP sponsored Tufts' IAW, which involved a film screening, panel discussion, solidarity fasting and direct action. That action occurred on Wednesday, when a graffiti?clad barrier - among the spray?painted messages, "TEAR DOWN THIS WALL" - was erected outside the Tisch library steps. Students in keffiyehs stood silently in a line while some dressed in IDF garb checked their IDs, blindfolding some and having them sit along the wall. The display imitated the checkpoints that Palestinians in the West Bank (not only at the border, but indeed across the entire territory) undergo everyday while Israeli citizens pass freely on the roads adjacent. Onlookers were given slips of paper with stories of individual mistreatment at checkpoints. The intent was for imagery of segregation - indeed of those with original claim to the land - to be seared into students' minds.
Former Harvard University dean and stem cell and regenerative biology department director Kathryn Link last month assumed the position of executive administrative dean for the Tufts School of Arts and Sciences. In the position, Link has begun to work with academic leadership to oversee all of the university's academic programs. She replaces Leah Rosovsky, who left Tufts to become vice president for strategy and programs at Harvard University. Link has worked in administrative positions at Harvard for the past decade, acting as an assistant dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and later becoming the executive director of the Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard's first joint department bringing together the school's Arts and Sciences faculty and Harvard Medical School. Link said that, when applying for the position at Tufts, she was attracted to the university's commitment to good research, scholarship, teaching and active citizenship. "I found Tufts' leadership very impressive," she said. "They have a lot of positive energy about the future of higher education and Tufts specifically. I think it's the place to work right now in the Boston area." Link received a degree in history from Washington University, a master's degree in applied linguistics and teaching English as a second language from Georgetown University and a degree in law from Vermont Law School, where she graduated magna cum laude. Before beginning her career at Harvard, she practiced corporate and real estate law. Link believes that she is well prepared for her position at Tufts and that her strongest qualification is her liberal arts education. "A liberal arts education prepares you for anything and everything," she said. Dean of Arts and Sciences Joanne Berger-Sweeney praised Link for her leadership skills in an email introducing Link to the Tufts community. "I was struck not only by Kathryn's credentials - which speak for themselves - but by her intellectual curiosity, her extensive knowledge of higher education and her collaborative spirit," Berger-Sweeney said in the statement. Rosovsky explained that during her time as executive administrative dean at Tufts, she spent a lot of time working on financial aid budgets for the School of Arts and Sciences. "I was part of a terrific team, and things that are done in universities are done in teams," she said. Her new position at Harvard entails helping the university work toward the president's strategic agenda, looking at issues of Harvard's globalization and attracting top-quality students and faculty, Rosovsky added. Link said that she was looking forward to arriving at Tufts for the spring semester. "I was completely thrilled to have the opportunity to come and work at Tufts," she said. "I began interviewing for the position before the holidays, and it came together in time to be a great New Year's surprise." Since then, Link has been enjoying her time and work at the university. "I've only been here a month, but I think Tufts has a really great vibe," she said. "There is a sense of purpose here but also a sense of humor. People are truly engaged in achieving their goals and finding the best solutions to achieving their goals without a lot of pretension."
I refuse to believe I am alone in this, so, question: Do you spend more time making to-do lists than doing?
